ThomasBHickey

As an undergraduate in physics in the late 60's, he was just a name on a door. Never saw him.

Try starting with a 2x2, then 3x3, etc. image and manually list all the possibilities.

I always thought Desk Set was a bit crazy, but it seems remarkably close to what AI is currently providing (including the warts).

Mostly nostalgia.

I was a Science Reference Librarian at John Crerar Library in Chicago in the early 70's, and this sounds very familiar, although we tended to get a slightly more focused set of questions (and our boss Mr. Quinn was much more pleasant!). I love Wikipedia, but the books in our Reference Collection were remarkable.

Me too (and yes, I'm old)

I can remember the days! I suppose as problems grow in size, it's not too surprising that older methods of coping with what seemed like lots of data are still applicable.

A friend of mine wrote a book about what happened in Germany: Scientists under Hitler : politics and the physics community in the Third Reich by Alan Beyerchen. I'm about a third of the way through it, but they mixed politics with the physical sciences to a remarkable degree, driving away many of the best people and isolating German scientists.

PostScript's magic is subtle. I once tried writing a PostScript interpreter in ADA. Got far enough to display the turkey example and realized that PostScript code can modify itself and decided I didn't want to go there.

I use an oral sleep appliance fitted by a dentist that specializes in treating sleep problems. Works well, but does take some getting used to.

I think he meant it depends on how you define 'swim'

They did indeed use multiple 68K chips. In fact I have one of the motherboards down in my basement (sadly not operational).

I started programming in college in the late 60's and it was cards up until the mid 70's when I got access to a PDP-10 with TECO as an editor. Online editing made longer and more ambitious programs much more feasible. Cards were sort of neat, though.